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Rio Grande Valley

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Mole Like Monterrey at El Gallo de Jalisco

    "I feel like I'm in a time warp," my friend Linda said after a few minutes contemplation over our plate of chicken mole at El Gallo de Jalisco. "I feel like I'm a kid again and I'm back at my grandmother's house in Monterrey eating her mole." The sensation was so strong, she immediately began regali ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Gilberto Montezano: Valley Cop Avoids Jail After Shaking Down Motorist For Beer

    For the third time since August, a cop in the Rio Grande Valley town of Edinburg has been terminated and faced criminal charges for varied forms of corruption. In the most recent case, in April of last year, 30-year-old Gilberto Montezano pulled over a truck driven by Miguel Guzman and evidently to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Patricia Aguilar: Juvenile Probation Officer Busted for Blowing Boot Camp Cadet

    For one delinquent Rio Grande Valley juvenile, a sentence to boot camp was transformed into a ticket to a dream hummer holiday. Somehow we don't think this was what the juvenile criminal justice system had in mind for the unidentified 17-year-old boy.... According to Cameron County Sheriff Omar L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Cirilo Castillo, Jr: Accused of Multiple Counts of Horse Sex

    themonitor.comCirilo Castillo: Hide yo' sheep, hide yo' mares, he (allegedly) rapin' everthang 'round there​If the comment sections of Rio Grande Valley newspapers are any indication, Hidalgo County is regarded as something of a rustic backwater by its more urbane neighbors. Stories like this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Seven Arrested With 1,600 Pounds of Pot

    No Mary-Louise Parker, just a lot of dudes​Seven men have been arrested and 1,600 pounds of weed taken on the northwest side of town, the U.S. Attorney's Office says. The men had transported the weed from the Rio Grande Valley to the 13200 block of Reeveston. They unloaded it there and re-loa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    She-Male Porn Pics Come to Fore in Valley Cop Election

    No comment.​A South Texas county constable election turned smutty last week when one candidate texted his opponent several graphic images of "she-male porn." Cameron County Precinct 4 Constable Robert Lopez was on the receiving end of the chicks with dicks images sent by electoral foe Joe Rod ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Alleged McAllen Starbucks Masturbator Immortalized in Song

    Jose Maravilla, celebrated in song​In the borderlands of South Texas, there has long been a tradition of immortalizing revolutionaries in song. Corridos, as these tunes are known, date back to the decades before the Mexican Revolution, and have been written in honor of people like Emiliano Zap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Robert Alvarez: TV-Star Gang Cop Accused of Inmate Sex, Abuse of Power, Theft

    If the producers of the History Channel's documentary series Gangland are to be trusted, Edinburg police investigator Robert Alvarez was one of the top cops in the Rio Grande Valley. The 47-year-old was tapped as a starring talking head in Gangland's episode on the Tri-City Bombers, the Valley's mos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Drunken Wee-Hours Whataburger Drive-Thrus: A Proud Texas Tradition

    I'll take a Whatachicken with fries and a large vodka.​Shamefully, all too many of us have been there: out in the bars since happy hour, it's now a quarter-past closing time. We stagger to the car and suddenly remember we haven't eaten a thing other than beer nuts since lunch. Hunger cuts thro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Oscar Gonzalez Jr.: Valley Teacher in Hot Water After Marriage to Lolita Turns Sour

    The Grand Plaza, in all its grandness​Just in time for the run-up to Valentine's Day comes this tale of romance vengeance from the Rio Grande Valley... In April of 2009, love bloomed in a science classroom at Economedes High School in Edinburg. The girl, named "Ms. G" in the police reports th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Texas Catfight Videos: Ferocious Filmed McAllen Brawl Bests Beaumont Battles

    Well, Beaumont, your reign as Capital of Texas Catfights was short. Not ten days after the wide publicizing of the long-running BMT Brawlz series of DVDs and the debut of the now nationally-infamous Chuck E. Cheese Throwdown, a new champion has emerged. After you see it, we think you'll agree with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Mexicans Determined to Shop in U.S. Charter a Plane

    The only way to shop​Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a group of Mexican nationals trying to fly over the drug cartel violence in the northern part of their country to get to stores in McAllen, Texas. As the amount of gunfighting and unease continues to mount in Mexico an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Anthony Ray Ferrell, The Good Samaritan Killer: Third Escapee From His Halfway House In 20 Months

    Photo courtesy HPD Victim Sam Irick and his alleged killer Anthony Ray Ferrell​The man charged with killing a Good Samaritan during a purse-snatching is the third person to escape the same state-contracted halfway house in the last 20 months.Anthony Ray Ferrell had fled a "halfway house in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Linda Rosales and Jessica Rosales: Fail In Scheme To Use Kid's Breath To Fool Breathalyzer

    Cameron County SOLinda Rosales: Where's mother's little helper?​We've all been there before: we've driven to a party and gotten shit-faced. And then we've been faced with a dilemma: How best to get you and all your kids home?It's especially hard when the damn law has ordered that your car be fitte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Tiffany Young-Hartley: Plot In Mexican Lake Pirate Murder Thickens As Body Proves Hard To Find

    Tiffany Young-Hartley: Questions​October certainly came in like a lion for residents of the Rio Grande Valley. On October 1, news broke of the alleged murder of an American jet-skier on border-straddling, allegedly freshwater-pirate-infested Falcon Lake. A recap for those who don't want to clic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Maria Ipina: Valley Cops Say Toddler Caught Peddling Weed Door-to-Door

    First rule, kid: Don't take nothing but cash​Even the most grizzled cops in the Rio Grande Valley town of San Juan say this is a new one for them, and that's saying something.They say they have had to remove a four-year-old girl from her home after neighbors complained that the pre-kindergartener ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    Illegal Immigration: What Bikini Babes Have To Say About It

    But those damn aliens can't read English!!!​ The controversy over immigration into America has been discussed ad nauseam on TV, op-ed columns and books, but it is perhaps best dealt with via the medium of bikini-babe posters.At least that's the thinking of one Alan Sessarego, of Gettysburg, PA. Se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Jesus Campos, Daniel Garcia and Julio Cantu: Valley Gang Fails Attempted Crime Spree

    The Fail is strong in these younglings​You'd think the three Rio Grande Valley teenagers might have realized it wasn't their night after their second attempt at an armed robbery failed. You would underestimate the persistence of this Borderlands gang that couldn't shoot straight.Fail #1: It all st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Stoner Follies: Adan Toca, Apparent Cheech and Chong Fan, Is A Stoner's Favorite Ice Cream Man

    Photo courtesy Mission PDA guy named Toca does weed. Go figure​Whoever said life imitates art was no liar. What's funny is how often life in Texas can imitate "high" art - namely Cheech and Chong movies. Take this tale, from Mission in the Rio Grande Valley... This Tuesday, a 34-year-old man na ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Minutemen Get Their Wish: Tomorrow Will Be A "Day Without Mexicans" In The Valley

    The Valley gets ready for a reprise of this​We're guessing this isn't going to work out as hoped: The chambers of commerce of several Mexican border towns are calling on residents to stay out of the U.S. tomorrow.That'll teach Arizona to pass a restrictive illegal-alien law, is the thinking. On th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Valley Weekend Mayhem Proves God, Intoxicants, And Knives Don't Mix

    Photo courtesy Hidalgo Co Sheriff's Office​Catholicism, knives, and intoxicants proved to be a potent stew in two incidents in and around the Rio Grande Valley town of Edinburg over the weekend. One is kind of funny... When Hidalgo County police found 20-year-old Agustin Casanova hiding in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Big Brother Is Watching You Buy Cellophane

    ​Police in the Rio Grande Valley have a new tactic in the war against pot smugglers: staking out office supply stores. In three cases since last November, suspects have been followed after making large purchases of cellophane. Here's more on the most recent case, from Valleycentral.com. U. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    The "Circus Superstar" With The Foul-Smelling Menagerie, Part 1

    ​While Caroline Wedding has only been running the Marion County Humane Society for about three years, she has already been on plenty of animal-cruelty raids, and has helped find better homes for hundreds of dogs, cats and exotic birds. Still, she thinks it's unlikely she will ever come across some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Valley Of Viagra And Vengeance: Did Septuagenarian Sex For Pay At Edinburg Adult Day-Care Lead To Two Deaths?

    Note: Any resemblance to actual Pride and Joy nurses is coincidental. And highly unlikely.​Maybe there's a little too much Viagra coursing through the Rio Grande Valley these days. How else is there to explain this crime of passion at the Pride and Joy adult day care center last week in Edinburg? ... More >>

  • Dining

    October 15, 2009

    Big House on the Hill

    Casa Grande, the Tex-Mex restaurant on a cliff above I-45 is a truly offbeat spot to eat nachos and dance salsa.

  • Dining

    June 18, 2009

    Not So Clear Cut

    What are you really eating when you order fajitas in a Tex-Mex restaurant?

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Pittsburgh/Arizona Fusion Cuisine: Fried Bologna Migas

    Not that I'm thinking about theme food for a football game or anything, but what about this for an inspired Rust Belt/Sun Belt fusion dish? My family is from Pittsburgh, so I associate the foods I ate in my youth with the Iron City. And I ate a lot of fried bologna and scrambled eggs. My father, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Squeeze Play: Texas Valley Lemons

    I always buy a sack of Valley lemons along with my red grapefruit on the way home from the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the citrus season. The not very tart lemons are wonderful to cook with. But I was never quite clear on the botanical details. "Valley lemons are a cross between a lemon and an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2008

    An Algae Farm Near The Ship Channel? Why The Hell Not?

    You know what the Ship Channel area needs?Besides a whole lot less pollution, we mean.It needs a good farm. An algae farm, in fact. That's the thinking of a Nevada company, which has announced plans to build a 20-acre algae farm near the Channel if it can get some financing from the federal governem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    DICK CHENEY INDICTED!! (Kinda)

    The long arm of Rio Grande Valley justice has reached out and nabbed....Dick Cheney? Yes, apparently. A grand jury has indicted the vice-president this afternoon. Hasn't the stature of limitations passed on "accidentally" shooting innocent bystanders? It turns out that it's not the shooting, it's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2008

    Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Guns For Friends

    The long arm of Rio Grande Valley justice has reached out and nabbed....Dick Cheney? Yes, apparently. A grand jury has indicted the vice-president this afternoon. Hasn't the stature of limitations passed on "accidentally" shooting innocent bystanders? It turns out that it's not the shooting, it's ... More >>

  • News

    January 10, 2008

    Immigration: The Boss Nun

    Cubans at a Rio Grande Valley shelter say Sister Margaret is taking advantage

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2007

    All in All It’s Just Another Brick

    Cubans at a Rio Grande Valley shelter say Sister Margaret is taking advantage

  • News

    May 31, 2007

    Border Fence May Destroy Wildlife Habitat

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife services spent $80 million to reclaim wildlife habitat in South Texas. Now Homeland Security is ready to wipe that out.

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2007

    What the Ice Ages Couldn’t Finish Off, the Feds May

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife services spent $80 million to reclaim wildlife habitat in South Texas. Now Homeland Security is ready to wipe that out.

  • News

    December 7, 2006

    Shorthanded

    Foreign pickers aren't getting through the post-9/11 barricades to harvest U.S. crops

  • Calendar

    July 27, 2006

    Ballet Aid

    Foreign pickers aren't getting through the post-9/11 barricades to harvest U.S. crops

  • Calendar

    July 6, 2006

    Brutal Harvest

    Foreign pickers aren't getting through the post-9/11 barricades to harvest U.S. crops

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2005

    Dang, You've Got Skills!

    Show 'em off at a midnight screening of Napoleon Dynamite

  • News

    April 14, 2005

    Who's Your Daddy?

    Track your true identity along a DNA trail left behind by your ancestors

  • Calendar

    January 13, 2005

    Cheap Shots

    A new film exposes the ugly deeds of legendary Texas heroes

  • Dining

    January 15, 2004

    Sino-Tex

    Two little restaurants serve up “Houstonized” Chinese food

  • Dining

    October 16, 2003

    Cancún Cuisine

    Take a little trip to Cascadas Cantina y Restaurante

  • Music

    August 21, 2003

    Cattle Call

    Boozing with a few aggrieved bad seeds at the American Idol audition

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    Letters

    Boiled by Oil, Try Gas Station Work, Rollin' with Ralph

  • Dining

    September 28, 2000

    Mama's Got a Brand-new Bag

    Mama Ninfa brings home fajitas

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Still Stumbling

    Houston Chronicle faces the Hispanic community and anchor confustion

  • Dining

    March 16, 2000

    Hot Plate

    La Flor Taqueria

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    Numbers Man

    The interim U.S. attorney is hustling small-time cases through the courts

  • Music

    May 18, 1995

    Rock and Roll Royalty

    Gina Haley carries the name of a rock founder, but she'd rather make it on her own

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